Structure, properties and applications of two‐dimensional hexagonal boron nitride

S Roy, X Zhang, AB Puthirath… - Advanced …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Hexagonal boron nitride (h‐BN) has emerged as a strong candidate for two‐dimensional
(2D) material owing to its exciting optoelectrical properties combined with mechanical …

2D material infrared photonics and plasmonics

A Elbanna, H Jiang, Q Fu, JF Zhu, Y Liu, M Zhao… - ACS …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) materials including graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, black
phosphorus, MXenes, and semimetals have attracted extensive and widespread interest …

Interface nano-optics with van der Waals polaritons

Q Zhang, G Hu, W Ma, P Li, A Krasnok, R Hillenbrand… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Polaritons are hybrid excitations of matter and photons. In recent years, polaritons in van der
Waals nanomaterials—known as van der Waals polaritons—have shown great promise to …

Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Hexagonal boron nitride for next‐generation photonics and electronics

S Moon, J Kim, J Park, S Im, J Kim, I Hwang… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Hexagonal boron nitride (h‐BN), an insulating 2D layered material, has recently attracted
tremendous interest motivated by the extraordinary properties it shows across the fields of …

Photonics with hexagonal boron nitride

JD Caldwell, I Aharonovich, G Cassabois… - Nature Reviews …, 2019‏ - nature.com
For more than seven decades, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been employed as an
inert, thermally stable engineering ceramic; since 2010, it has also been used as the optimal …

Extreme light confinement and control in low-symmetry phonon-polaritonic crystals

E Galiffi, G Carini, X Ni, G Álvarez-Pérez… - Nature Reviews …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Polaritons are a hybrid class of quasiparticles originating from the strong and resonant
coupling between light and matter excitations. Recent years have witnessed a surge of …

Quo vadis, metasurfaces?

CW Qiu, T Zhang, G Hu, Y Kivshar - Nano letters, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
The full manipulation of intrinsic properties of electromagnetic waves has become the
central target in various modern optical technologies. Optical metasurfaces have been …

Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials

Y Wu, J Duan, W Ma, Q Ou, P Li… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Polaritons, originating from the interactions between photons and material excitations, have
attracted attention because of their strong field compression and deeply subdiffractional …

Polariton panorama

DN Basov, A Asenjo-Garcia, PJ Schuck, X Zhu… - …, 2020‏ - degruyter.com
In this brief review, we summarize and elaborate on some of the nomenclature of polaritonic
phenomena and systems as they appear in the literature on quantum materials and …